On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:20:01 -0700, Raymond Burkholder said: > Another aspect is congestion. Large uploads or downloads can cause > packet loss (including dropping the pings with which you are testing). > Therefore management packets such as these could be marked and > processed, on your side at least, with a higher priority.
How much depends on whether the CPE gear has software recent enough to avoid massive bufferbloat.